Rachel Shand

Truanting

My Alarm goes off at 6.45am. I wake up suddenly, looking at my teddy and call out ‘Keeper’. I run the bath, I brush my teeth and I take out my red top. I go into my mum’s make up bag, and I take her red lipstick, I put it in my school bag, I begin to text Tash, ‘Make sure you look on point. I’m wearing red. What colour are you wearing? “I put on my clothes for keeper under my uniform, so when mum sees me I’m in my uniform. My phone bleeps its